Texas Spring Backyard Garden

We enjoy gardening and growing organic foods in our backyard. Most of Spring, Summer, and Fall, we do not have to buy any greens. We just go to our backyard and harvest what we need. One day we hope to grow most of the food we eat. We drink lots of smoothies and juice periodically so this saves us quite a bit. Not to mention our salads are delicious! There is nothing better than farm to table.

In April we planted our Spring/Summer garden. It is growing great! This year we are growing lots of different fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Two years ago, we bought a Garden Tower, which is perfect for greens, herbs, strawberries, and tomatoes. We also have a square foot garden and a few containers. 

In the awesome tower, we are growing three kinds of lettuce, two kinds of spinach, and one kind of kale. We also have lots of herbs, strawberries, onions, and tomatoes. In the past we have grown broccoli and Chinese cabbage. In the square foot garden we have onions, peppers, garlic, three kinds of peas, okra, tomatoes, two kinds of poblano peppers, cucumbers, garlic, and two kinds of carrots. We decided not to grow any beets although those grow really well in our area too. Our blueberry bush is fully of little blueberries. There are lots of peaches on our peach tree. Our generous neighbor gave our son a banana tree so we're hoping it produces some bananas, although we don't necessarily live in the right climate but you never know. We have catnip and marigold to ward off mosquitoes and they have worked really well for us. We're hoping to add another square foot garden to grow some various melons and later in July plant some pumpkin seeds. For now, here are some pictures of our little backyard city garden. 

Garden Tower

Lettuce, spinach, and kale

More of our salad greens

White Princess Peach Tree

Blueberry bush, we're hoping to plant it in the ground after this season

Tomatoes and mosquito repealing plants

Square foot garden

Mosquito repelling plant

Banana Tree